Pierre Corneille
French writer
Died when: 78 years 117 days (939 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: ?[pj?? k??n?j]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian.He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities.
He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.
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